Alun Harford

This is so annoying..... wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm having a little bit of trouble with BitLocker. I don't have TPM and
> have enabled it to use a USB flash drive. Well, the actual encryption part is
> working fine, but every time I start up, it makes me "Remove Key Storage
> Media" before it will continue the start up process. I enabled BitLocker
> before doing a clean install and it worked fine one the last installation - I
> didn't have to remove it or anything. I don't really think it makes sense
> that I should have to remove it so that makes me a little concerned and it
> also means that I can't leave my computer alone to start up. Is there any way
> to make it so that I don't have to remove the flash drive while starting up?

There's no point in enabling BitLocker if you leave the key with the
machine. Put the key on your keyring.

Alun Harford